Amy Ramage
My research, teaching, and clinical interests center on the neurologic bases of cognition and emotion as they interact with communication competence. My research group, the Cognition, Brain and Language Team (CoBALT) studies the association between impairments of cognition, emotion & language in acquired brain injury and the brain systems that underlie them. The objective is to identify variables (biomarkers or behaviors) that contribute to the dysfunction of brain systems and to determine their value as predictors of outcomes. The long-term goal of this work is to understand whether these predictors may be targeted and optimized in treatments effecting change in these neural systems.
Research Interests
- Communicative Disorders, Speech
- Neuroimaging
- Neurological Disorders
- Speech/Language Therapy
- Traumatic Brain/Head Injury
- Traumatic Stress Disorders
Courses Taught
- COMM 711/811: Brain and Behavior
- COMM 742: Speech-Language Pathology II
- COMM 811: Brain and Behavior
- COMM 833: Aphasia in Adults
- COMM 841: Cognitive Communication Disord
- COMM 903: Principles of Intervention
- COMM 904: Aphasia in Adults
- INCO 590: Student Research Experience
Selected Publications
Ramage, A. E., Ray, K. L., Franz, H. M., Tate, D. F., Lewis, J. D., & Robin, D. A. (2022). Cingulo-Opercular and Frontoparietal Network Control of Effort and Fatigue in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE, 15. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2021.788091
Stark, B. C., Dutta, M., Murray, L. L., Fromm, D., Bryant, L., Harmon, T. G., . . . Roberts, A. C. (2021). Spoken Discourse Assessment and Analysis in Aphasia: An International Survey of Current Practices. JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH, 64(11), 4366-4389. doi:10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00708
Ramage, A. E. (2020). Potential for Cognitive Communication Impairment in COVID-19 Survivors: A Call to Action for Speech-Language Pathologists. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY, 29(4), 1821-1832. doi:10.1044/2020_AJSLP-20-00147
Ramage, A. E., Aytur, S., & Ballard, K. J. (2020). Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Connectivity Between Semantic and Phonological Regions of Interest May Inform Language Targets in Aphasia. JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH, 63(9), 3051-3067. doi:10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00117
Ramage, A. E., Tate, D. F., New, A. B., Lewis, J. D., & Robin, D. A. (2019). Effort and Fatigue-Related Functional Connectivity in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY, 9. doi:10.3389/fneur.2018.01165
Ramage, A. E., Litz, B. T., Resick, P. A., Woolsey, M. D., Dondanville, K. A., Young-McCaughan, S., . . . Consortium, S. T. R. O. N. G. S. T. A. R. (2016). Regional cerebral glucose metabolism differentiates danger- and non-danger-based traumas in post-traumatic stress disorder. SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE, 11(2), 234-242. doi:10.1093/scan/nsv102
Ramage, A. E., Lin, A. -L., Olvera, R. L., Fox, P. T., & Williamson, D. E. (2015). Resting-state regional cerebral blood flow during adolescence: Associations with initiation of substance use and prediction of future use disorders. DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE, 149, 40-48. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2015.01.012
Ramage, A. E., Laird, A. R., Eickhoff, S. B., Acheson, A., Peterson, A. L., Williamson, D. E., . . . Fox, P. T. (2013). A Coordinate-Based Meta-Analytic Model of Trauma Processing in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING, 34(12), 3392-3399. doi:10.1002/hbm.22155
Lewis, J. D., Knutson, K. M., Gotts, S. J., Tierney, M., Ramage, A., Tate, D. F., . . . Wassermann, E. M. (n.d.). Resting State Correlations of Fatigue Following Military Deployment.